Jane Doe Inc. Statement Ahead of Domestic Violence Awareness Month
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Katherine Sele, katherine@ninetywest.com Statement on Domestic Violence Awareness Month Since 1989, October has marked National Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM). Jane Doe Inc. (JDI), the Massachusetts Coalition Against Sexual...
Don’t blame domestic violence victims in child welfare cases
DCF should be guided by best practices. Boston Globe Editorial Board September 20, 2023 It is one of the toughest challenges in the difficult field of child welfare — protecting children in homes where there is domestic violence while not punishing a non-abusive...
The Pervasive Impact of Coercive Control
In late June, the Together Rising Above Coercion (TRAC) coalition held a briefing at the Massachusetts State House, attended by numerous Coalition members and partners – including Jane Doe Inc. and the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute – advocates, legislators, and...
25 In-Depth: Advocates hopeful Mass. will finally criminalize nonconsensual porn
Kerry Kavanaugh and Marina Villeneuve Wed, July 12, 2023 Alex Hagerty said he remembers the day he got messages from strangers about sexually explicit videos they found of him on a popular social media website. Immediately, he said he put the pieces together – he...
Column: Domestic violence isn’t just a ‘family matter.’ It’s ‘community violence.’
The Supreme Court is set to hear a case about abusers and guns. It’s urgent to change the reductive narrative about intimate partner violence. By Renée Graham Globe Columnist On July 4, Scott Swale broke into Tatiana Tavares’s Raynham home. He fatally shot her as she...
In ‘historic’ moment, MCI-Framingham prisoners testify live at moratorium hearing
By Sarah Betancourt June 27, 2023 A group of 20 women incarcerated at MCI-Framingham testified live on Zoom at a hearing on Monday — for the first time in legislative history. Clad in green uniforms, each woman sat in front of a camera in a white room and spoke in...
Column: What does a predator look like? Not what the haters want you to think.
By Yvonne Abraham Globe Columnist, What does a predator look like? The question has long been crucial for the cynics who fuel America’s culture wars, leveraging fear to win votes. It is also crucial to those of us who genuinely want to confront the scourge of...
New Hope Inc. CEO Diana Mancera Receives 2023 Visionary Voice Award
On Thursday, June 2, Jane Doe Inc. (JDI), the Massachusetts Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence -- in partnership with the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) -- was thrilled to present Diana Mancera, CEO of New Hope Inc., with the 2023...
Proposed task force would address Mass. domestic violence records law found to shield abusers
May 30, 2023 by Ally Jarmanning State legislators are looking to make changes to a Massachusetts law that keeps secret all police records of domestic and sexual violence, after a WBUR investigation revealed the statute designed to protect victims has instead shielded...
EDITORIAL: Abuse takes many forms, and domestic violence laws should reflect them
Since state domestic violence laws were written, the understanding of what constitutes domestic abuse has evolved, and laws must keep up. Advocates make a strong case that the abuse many people, often women, experience from intimate partners is not adequately...
